Civil War

Atlanta's military importance to the Confederacy was that it was the 

• capital of the Confederacy.
• most populated city in the Confederacy.
• industrial and transportation center of the Confederacy.
• home to the largest number of slaves in the Confederacy.

What Union general led the northern army on its "March to the Sea" and saw to it that much of Georgia's capital resources were destroyed?

• Robert E. Lee
• Ulysses S. Grant
• William T. Sherman
• Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

• It freed all slaves in states fighting against the Union.

• It freed all slaves in the United States

• It put Ulysses S. Grant in charge of all Union forces.

• It allowed slaves to fight in the Confederate army.

What was the impact of Sherman’s “March to the Sea”?

• It convinced the South that they could win the war.

• It convinced President Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.

• It forced Robert E. Lee to evacuate Georgia.

• It left a path of destruction from Atlanta to Savannah that crippled the Confederacy.

How was the Emancipation Proclamation a concession to the South?

• all slaves would be freed.

• only male slaves would be freed.

• The South could keep their slaves if they stopped fighting.

• The slaves could decide if they wanted to remain on the plantations.

The MOST LIKELY reason General William T. Sherman wanted to control the rail lines running through Atlanta, Georgia, during his "Atlanta Campaign" was because he wanted to

• prevent residents of the city from fleeing to the North.

• cut off the flow of supplies to the Confederate army.

• use the rail lines to quickly transport his troops.

• extend the rail lines into the northern states.

This Civil War-era illustration is showing

• Grant's victory at Shiloh.

• Sherman's "March to the Sea".

• Scott's victory at Gettysburg.

• the Union blockade of the South.

11 southern states seceded from the the Union and formed their own country called... (Select all answers that apply)

• C.S.A.

• The Confederacy

• The Union

• The Confederate States of America

Another name for the United States of America.

• C.S.A.

• The Confederacy

• The Union

• The 13 colonies

A strategy in which the North used its superior navy to prevent the South from shipping cotton to England and France in return for weapons and other supplies. Georgia ports at Savannah, Brunswick and Darien were blocked by Union ships.

• Union blockade

• Sherman's March to the Sea

• The Atlanta Campaign

• Andersonville Prison